> Am 30.01.2021 um 19:41 schrieb Fabio Valentini <decatho...@gmail.com>: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 7:24 PM Peter Boy <p...@uni-bremen.de> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Am 30.01.2021 um 17:45 schrieb Vitaly Zaitsev via devel >>> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>: >>> >>> On 30.01.2021 16:58, Peter Boy wrote: >>>> But it’s perfectly usable for Fedora Workstation or Server and almost >>>> indispensable for some development projects, e.g. Java (and vi/vim for a >>>> terminal environment). Why should alternatives not be usable there? Or >>>> what is a suitable and adequate replacement? >>> >>> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Alternatives/ >> >> Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, I don’t see a connection to immutable >> Fedora (it is about drop-in, user configurable, etc). Or do I miss something? > > If you read the Packaging Guidelines, they actually explicitly mention > that vi / vim are a bad example for using the alternatives system - > because they're not drop-in replacements.
Yes, I got that (and mentioned the drop-in criteria), but the original post can /could be interpreted as, alternatives is / has to be altogether "banned" from Fedora. And that seems to me to be the trigger of the discussion here. > Additionally, as far as I know, OSTree based Fedora variants do not > execute any RPM scriptlets, but implement their own handling of e.g. > ldconfig and such things. > And alternatives is definitely not compatible with OSTree - according > to these bug reports, at least Java alternatives are broken - > apparently primarily because OSTree stores configuration in /var > instead of /etc: Yes, but what will we do about it? The fix mentioned previously (manually symlink) is not as powerful as alternatives. But it may be a bad idea to remove alternatives from workstation (and server) just because it doesn’t work with silverblue. That’s the core of discussion here. Peter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
